Corrections: December 21, 2017

Dec. 20, 2017

FRONT PAGE

An article on Sunday about Republican lawmakers marshaling enough votes to pass sweeping tax legislation misstated the types of taxes that taxpayers would be prohibited from prepaying under the new law. It would bar taxpayers only from prepaying next year’s state and local income taxes, not property taxes.

INTERNATIONAL

An article on Wednesday about France’s decision to designate an original manuscript of Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” as a national treasure misstated the length of the scroll on which the work was written. It was 39 feet long, not three feet long.

THE ARTS

A review on Tuesday about the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum referred incorrectly to the early history of the slave trade in Mississippi. The state had thriving slave markets in towns across the state in the decades before the Civil War — but it did not have markets in its big cities, including Jackson, when it was admitted to the Union in 1817. (Jackson was founded later, in 1821.)

THURSDAY STYLES

An article last Thursday about Finch College misstated the title of a Jefferson Airplane song. It is “Somebody to Love,” not “Don’t You Want Somebody to Love?”

OBITUARIES

An obituary on Saturday about the drummer Sunny Murray referred incompletely to a story he had told about winning an award from DownBeat magazine. Although he told an interviewer that he took the award to the magazine’s office and burned it, Dan Morgenstern, who was DownBeat’s editor at the time, denies that this happened.

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An obituary on Wednesday about the longtime M&T Bank chief executive Robert G. Wilmers, using information from the bank, omitted the name of a survivor. In addition to those named, Mr. Wilmers is survived by his sister, Mary-Kay Wilmers, the editor of The London Review of Books.

Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.